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sandalssandal · 2 months

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I always bring him along for this quest

Lost in dreams quest can be described in one phrase WHY ARE WE STILL HERE JUST TO SUFFER?

#dragon age #dai #dragon age origins #alistair theirin #hero of ferelden #< prev tags #it really do be like that sometimes #wasn’t it a mouse?#I’ll pretend for the joke #I actually don’t mind this quest once I figure out where to go #I may hate the deep roads more #but yeah no denying it’s long #at least it has a funny little transformation mechanic

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sandalssandal · 3 months

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Heavy is the crown forged by blood 🩸

Sketch:

#dragon age #da2 #dragon age 2 #hawke da2 #garrett hawke #I always wanted to do a run called ‘The Dark Timeline’#it’s where I go through all the da games where I make the worst choices the game offers #killing or making companions worse #same with npcs #making the PC’s miserable #that sorta thing #the templar ending with Hawke interests me in particular #I think I’d play him green and mage friendly at the start of the game #but has the years go on in Kirkwall with losing his family and dealing with bloodmages and demons he’s seen the lowest of the low #and that warps his view on what could be and the templars start to make more and more sense #he grasps for a sense of control on his life with power and in the end he loses everything #but he gets a fancy title and a crown

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sandalssandal · 3 months

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Let’s fucKING GOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

#dragon age #dragon age veilguard #died in the fade 2014 #born in release 2024 #welcome back Hawke the champion of kirkwall #/j #personality wheel my beloved #if there’s one thing I loathed about inquisition it was the lacklustre response wheel #the inquisitor felt so flat with the responses

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sandalssandal · 3 months

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I have more thoughts on this but think Hawke should’ve died at the end of DA2, specifically in the final battle against Meredith.

#dragon age #da2 #dragon age hawke #hawke da2 #I have a whole ass draft about this idea but it basically turned into half-lore half-fanfic #I think it would’ve fit with Hawkes character theme #I say this with love for Hawke as a character

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sandalssandal · 7 months

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Behold, Stoned Astarion:

May he bring you good wishes and good weed

#baldur's gate 3 #astarion #bg3 astarion #bg3 #one of the few pictures I have of him #I almost always forget to screenshot in my games

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sandalssandal · 1 year

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wake up babe, new reason to ditch FANDOM/Wikia just dropped

Previosuly

corporate monster infested with ads which devoured Gamepedia and other companies (feat me on their shit policies, SEO and migration process)

turning entire articles into ads if paid enough

limited functionality preventing admins to even fight vandalism

merging and removing of LGBT+ wikis (and forced domain change for educational [think serious] wikis to "fandom")

official wiki status has no meaning in controlling shit

very much censorship (same good ol' allergy to adult stuff)

gets paid by US Navy to advertise their events (one, two)

Alternative free wiki hostings (aka wiki farms)

Miraheze - started in 2015, non-commercial - no ads and runs on donations, wide array of MediaWiki features, wide array of allowed types of wikis and content, much autonomy for projects, custom domain and private wiki options

wiki.gg - started in 2022 by former Gamepedia staff, limited to video games, accent on involvement of game devs and thus hosting official wikis, has ads for anons (but only of games having wikis here)

Telepedia - started in 2022, limited to entertainment (although might allow other themes upon review), has ads for anons, replicates Miraheze structure

WikiTide - started in 2023, no ads and runs on donations (but also tied w/ premium version called WikiForge), largely replicates Miraheze but has stricter content policies, custom domain option

Other free options I'm aware of are either too limited in allowed content or are very outdated/unstable in technical department to recommend here (or in case of Neoseeker - I'm completely unfamiliar with it, and can't say anything about it), but you still can check them out, alongside paid hostings, on this MediaWiki page.

If you (or your community) are brave and dedicated enough you can go with self-hosted MediaWiki instance (aka independent hosting), like JoJo Wiki (who started on Wikia and succeed at overtaking the SEO) or NIWA wikis. This option, of course, requires funding and technical knowledge, but it's still very much possible.

How to find existing alternative/independent wikis

try to use "-fandom" filter for search query in Google, or use other search engines like Bing or DuckDuckGo

Indie Wiki Buddy browser extension - it modifies search engine results and performs redirects based on its centralized list of independent wikis; a new indie wiki has to be requested/submitted to get added [ Firefox / Chrome ]

Redirect to wiki.gg browser extension - same as IWB but for wikis moved to wiki.gg (as I understand, works automatically without dedicated listing) [ Firefox / Chrome ]

(simple) Redirector browser extension - in case the wiki is neither on IWB or wiki.gg, and it doesn't filter out search results - only performs redirect on whatever you get; a redirect has to be set manually - see this tutorial [ Firefox / Chrome ]

Fuck FANDOM, support real people, support indie wikis

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sandalssandal · 1 year

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Contributing to the Asexual Alistair posts

Alt for my full hc:

#dragon age #da fanart #alistair theirin #dragon age alistair #he is in my heart of hearts #the blight makes you speedrun your self discovery #da:o #da: origins

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